A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Let’s start with the drooling and go from there as Chris King was at a showdown between Franklyn Kilome and a rehabbing Jameson Tallion. Kilome 94-96 with life. Breaking ball is much improved. Sharp, late bite at 79-81 #Phillies — 𝘾hris King (@StatsKing) May 14, 2015 Kilome's velo is so free and easy it's insane. … Read more
The Phillies are in a state of flux regarding their outfielders and there will be likely be numerous roster moves made in late May or early June. Dominic Brown could return to the outfield with the Phillies, along with Cody Asche sliding into left field and Ben Revere starting in center. The moves will also … Read more
Today was another solid start from Phillippe Aumont in what is rapidly becoming an unbelievable story. Of his 4 starts so far, Aumont has been scoreless in 3 of them and overall has gone 21 innings with 16 hits, 3 earned runs, 5 walks, and 16 strikeouts. I want to write a big breakdown about … Read more
On the surface it has not been the greatest third season in Reading for Jesse Biddle, his 4.60 ERA is ugly and he is posting his lowest strikeout numbers of his career. However, that doesn’t tell the entire story here. Fangraphs has Biddle at a 2.77 FIP thanks to his zero home runs on the … Read more
Well, this was a pretty exciting trip to Coca-Cola Park for me tonight. First off, it was my first time using our new seats. We’ve been partial season ticket holders for three seasons now and this year we moved closer to home plate in Section 115. Something always seems to come up which keeps me … Read more
On the year catcher and 2013 second round pick, Andrew Knapp is hitting .292/.339/.396. On the bad news, is that the line comes with 30 strikeouts in 106 ABs (26.1% K%) and a .403 BABIP that doesn’t look sustainable. Last year in Lakewood it was a similar story with Knapp hitting .290/.354/.438 with a 22.6% … Read more
It was a rocky start for Shane Watson from the moment he was drafted in the supplemental first round of the 2012 draft. The big righty was diagnosed with diabetes soon after being drafted which limited his time in the GCL as he lost a lot of weight and strength. He bounced back in Instructs … Read more
My son and I made the one hour trek out to Baseballtown for our first Reading Fightins game of the season. We’ve both been looking forward to this since the season started. For my purposes, this roster is loaded with a variety of young talent at all levels of development. For my son (who is … Read more
Best Matchup: Saturday – Reading – Zach Eflin vs Joe Ross A matchup of former Padres first rounders traded this offseason (Ross in 2011, Eflin in 2012), Ross went to the Nationals in the deal that sent Wil Myers to San Diego and Steven Souza to Tampa Bay. Eflin so far has taken better to the … Read more
It is hard to make any sweeping judgements on early season stats, so the best question is often “What is this player doing new?”. In the case of shortstop Malquin Canelo he is showing power that he has never shown up this point. Canelo up to this point has been a bit of an after … Read more